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SOeiHt 19334
STATE HI9TCRIC. U.
HITT & LOWRY liT.
COLUMBIA, MO- - 520i
71 M Yrar INo. 163 (, Mw Morning lis Friday. Manh 2.1. 197) 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents
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fioto lUustrationMarcuS Lamkirvtouic-- Psinoyo
A Missourian Poll shows that voters believe finding future sources of electricity
should be at the top of the city's priority list. The result, voters hope, will be more
effective than the small animal power depicted here.
IVHSSOURIAINfl
Tax- c- ut fever absent gyLLV g
in Columbia, survey reveals
By BJ. Martin
Missourian staff writer
Tax- c- ut fever, which supposedly has swept
the country in the wake of California's Pro-position
13, has not hit Columbia voters.
By a margin of nearly 3- to-- l, Columbians
say they want to keep the present level of
city services, even if itmeans higher taxes.
They oppose, by a margin of 5- t- o- l, cutting
taxes if it means a reduction in services.
A scientific survey conducted by the
Columbia Missourian also shows that:
Voters believe finding future electricity
sources and reducing wasteful spending are
the two most important problems facing the
city.
- City administration and the Parks and
Recreation Department are the most
popular choices for trimming if budget cuts
do become necessary. Law enforcement was
picked overwhelmingly as the last service to
cut.
By almost 2- to- - l, voters oppose the
widening of West Broadway.
- About half the voters favor the city's
proposed purchase of 7 acres ( 2.8 hectares)
of Lions- Stephen- s Park, but almost as many
oppose it.
- Seventy percent support active enforce-ment
of the rental housing standards or-dinance.
Only 15 percent oppose it.
v Nearly half the voters favor adoption of
an earnings tax to replace the existing
property and utilities taxes, but 35 percent
oppose an earnings tax.
The survey, conducted Friday through
Monday, was based on a sample of 360 regis-tered
voters, chosen at random to be repre-sentative
of Columbia voters as a whole. The
margin of error for a sample of this size is 6
percent and the confidence level is 95 per-cent.
This means that, for example, when the
survey shows that 61 percent of the voters
favor maintaining current services, the odds
are 19- to- - l that the true public support is no
less than 55 percent and no greater than 67
percent.
Support for maintaining services even at
the cost of higher taxes which some city
officials have warned is one choice facing
the City Council to be elected April 3 is
strong in all six wards. The First Ward gave
it the lowest support, 48 percent, and the
Fifth Ward gave it the highest, 73 percent.
No ward except the First showed less than
half its voters in support of that alternative.
By contrast, the only ward to show more
than one of five voters in favor of cutting
taxes and services was the Second, with 24
percent. At least 63 percent of the voters
opposed that option in every ward and more
Broadway Widening j
Do sou faor th- - propovd vud.- nitu- ;
i! WVst Bui. idu a- - i
I
Yes No Unsure j
28 589c 149c '
I
1
Stephens Park Purchase I
!
Cit offic iaN hac discussed purchasing
about ccn acres of land known
j as I. ions Stephens Park Arc ou in favor
of the- - purchase- -
j Yes No Unsure
j 50 37 13
than 80 percent were against it in the Fifth
and Sixth wards.
Although voters showed they would be
willing to support existing programs, their
tax- doll- ar generosity ends there. Only 13
percent said they would support increasing
city taxes to receive a higher level of ser- -
( See VOTERS, Page 12A )
Candidates, constituents not in tune
Security breaks down; tax returns given out freely
From United Press International
and Missourian staff reports
JEFFERSON CITY Want a copy of
your neighbor's, or anyone else's,
Missouri income tax return?
With only a minimum of information
and a phone call, you can have the
Missouri Deparujaent of Revenue mail
you a copy of anyone's completed tax
forms. Or at least you could until today.
The Department of Revenue has
claimed that an individual's tax return
is confidential and that the information
is protected. Only the taxpayer filing
the returns can receive a copy, ac-cording
to the department. But in the
past week, copies of three individuals'
state tax returns have been obtained by
reporters with only phone calls to the
department.
In an investigation by United Press
International, the Columbia Missourian
and the Missouri Network, a statewide
radio news service, reporters obtained
copies of personal income tax returns
by giving the department only a name,
address and Social Security number.
One return requested by phone even
was sent to an address other than the
one on the return.
Missouri law states it is a felony for
officials to divulge the contents of a
return. Revenue officials said they
believed they had not violated the law.
In response to the investigation, Gov.
Joseph Teasdale said Thursday he was
appalled by lax security and ordered an
immediate investigation.
At a fund- rais- er in Dexter, Mo..
Teasdale said, " As a former
prosecutor, I am particularly sensitive
to any breach of confidentiality, espe-cially
in an area as sensitive as in-dividual
income tax returns."
State Auditor James Antonio said the
auditor's office has been trying unsuc-cessfully
for years to audit the Revenue
Department's handling of returns.
Antonio said it is ironic that any citi-zen
could get information that Antonio
was barred by the state Supreme Court
from seeing.
" You've got to be kidding me,"
Antonio said when told of the situation.
State Revenue Director Gerald Gold-berg
told reporters Thursday he is
putting a stop to the practice of sending
tax returns after phone requests.
" Whether it's legal or illegal, I'm
putting a stop to it. I think it fthe
request) has to be in writing and we
have to have proof that we're giving it
to the taxpayer," Goldberg said.
Neither Goldberg nor Terry Eckert,
director of the division of taxation, was
able to say Thursday what procedure
department employees follow when
requests are made for copies of returns.
Despite the fact that one of the re-turns
obtained by reporters was mailed
to an address different from the one on
the return. Eckert said copies usually
are not mailed unless the address is the
same.
Both Goldberg and Eckert promised
the matter " will be thoroughly investi-gated."
SALT talks run into snag
By Richard Burt
: New York Times
WASHINGTON Senior administra- tio- n
aides, after an extensive review of
negotiations with the Soviet Union on
limiting strategic arms, have con-cluded
that more talks with Moscow are
needed before a new accord can be
reached, government officials said
Thursday.
" Earlier this week. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance said a new agreement
might be completed within days. But
after a meetirig Wednesday of the
cabinet- lev- el Special Coordinating
Insight
Committee, officials said two or three
technical issues were holding up the
treaty.
They said the issues reflected a new
administration effort to get Moscow to
agree to more precise limits on
modernization of Soviet missiles and
stricter procedures for verifying com-pliance
with the accord.
They said- - the administration was
committed to completing an agreement
soon and that a summit meeting next
month was still possible. But the White
House was said to be wary of accepting
Soviet proposals that could weaken its
ability to gain Senate approval for the
controversial accord.
Officials said another factor in pro-longing
negotiations was skepticism
among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who
have taken a tougher line on the talks.
They said the White House was under
pressure to clarify some " ambiguous"
aspects of the treaty.
Some officials voiced concern that
the longer a treaty was delayed, the
more likely it would be that new issues
could further prolong the talks.
Toxins in ponds threaten creek
By Marilyn Cummins
Missourian staff writer
STURGEON Toxic chemicals con-taminating
two ponds here could seep
. into nearby Saling Creek, Ron
CrunkQton of the Missouri Department
of Conservation said Thursday.
, All the fish are dead in the ponds
adjacent to the site where 20,000 gallons
! ( 76,000 liters) of orthochlorophenol
spilled from a tank car in January.
I Although it cannot be determined if the
I fish died of chemical exposure or
1 winter weather, fish placed in water
I from the . upper pond died in eight
I minutes during laboratory tests, said
I Crunkilton, a water quality research
biologist for the conservation depart-ment.
The U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency is awaiting its own test results,
expected today, before recommending
decontamination methods.
Crunkilton said a danger now lies in
the chance that the material might seep
into the creek, which drains about 20
yards ( 18 meters) from the lower pond
and eventually flows into the Salt
River. Samples taken downstream dis-closed
no evidence of the chemical
before Thursday, but additional rainfall --
could affect the drainage.
- Should heavy rainfall cause an over'
flow into the creek, the high water level
would prevent dammiag. the creek to
contain the chemical, said James
Whitley, supervisor of trie water quality
research for the department. Cleaning
the contaminated stream would be
difficult, he said. The conservation de-partment
has no authority over the
ponds.
Bill Kemner, who owns the ponds,
alerted tbe. department about the dead
fish Friday. Department tests showed
no chemicals present in a third pond
located across the road from the spill,
although dead fish were present there
also. Kemner waters his livestock at
the pond.
His wife said that since Jan. 31 two
( See CHEMICALS, Page 12A)
By Wayne J. HeOman
Missourian staff writer
City Council candidates agree with their
constituents on what problems face
Columbia, but they don't always agree what
the solutions are, a Columbia Missourian
survey shows.
Responding to the same survey question-naire,
voters and candidates agree that the
most important problems facing the city are
developing additional sources of electricity,
city tax and spending policies, and im-proving
traffic control.
However, several candidates' positions on
what level of city taxes and services should
be maintained have little in common with
their constituents' opinions. Some council
candidates said city taxes are too high, but
voters in every ward strongly oppose tax
cuts if they mean a loss of services. A large
majority of the voters would even support a
tax increase to maintain current city ser-vices.
All the candidates in the Third, Fourth and
Sixth wards said they oppose increasing
taxes to maintain current services, though
support for maintaining services is the
highest in those wards. Sixth Ward can-didate
Ruth Eason said she thinks the level
of services can be maintained while taxes
are reduced.
In contrast. Second Ward opponents
Holme Hickman and James Williams and
First Ward candidate Richard Knipp said
they support maintaining services even at
the cost of increasing taxes, while fewer of
their constituents take that position than in
the other wards. Hickman added that he
doesn't believe a tax increase will be
necessary to maintain current services.
Knipp's opponent, Mary Ratliff . has called
for a lid on city spending, while Sixth Ward
candidate Lew Stoerker has accused the
present council of wasting city funds on con- - 1
suiting studies and equipment for the Parks I
and Recreation Department. I
Voters, asked which city department l
should be cut if budget trimming is done, i
named the parks department second only to I
city administration. I
Another sharp difference between candi- - J
dates and voters shows up on the issue of j
widening West Broadway. Voters citywide
oppose the widening by 2- to- - l. but five of the
13 candidates said they support the project.
Only the First Ward race seems likely to
feel any impact from that difference,
however. Knipp favors the project and Mrs.
Ratliff opposes it. But First Ward voters are
so marginally opposed to the project that the
( See MANY, Page 12 A)
Inside
today
Endorsement
The Missourian continues its
editorial endorsements for the
April 3 City Council elections with
a selection- - for the First Ward
race. See Page 4A.
Health insurance
President Carter, deciding
against proposing full compre-hensive
national health insurance
this year, plans to submit to
Congress soon the first phase of a
health program that would begin
in 1983 and cost $ 10 billion to $ 15
billion. Details on Page 2A.
Mat town
today
9: 49 a. m. Author Louis " Studs"
Terkel speaks, University's
Memorial Union Auditorium.
7 p. m. " TV Dinner," Univer-sity
Studio Theater, 50 cents.
7: 30 p. m. Country Hayride
Opry show, Stephens College Old
Auditorium, $ 3.50 for adults' and
$ 2.50 for students.
8 p. m. " The Crucible,"
Maplewood Barn Theater.
Movie listings on Page 2B
Krauskopf top choice
for federal judgeship
By Paul Wilson and Richard Antwefler
Missourian staff writers
Joan Miday Krauskopf, a professor at
the University School of Law and a
leading contender for a new federal
judgeship, said Thursday night an in-vestigation
of her background by the
FBI and the American Bar Association
has begun.
That inquiry usually is tantamount to
a candidate's nomination, according to
a high official in the Women's Political
Caucus.
Ms. Krauskopf made the statement to
a Columbia Missourian reporter when
he told her a knowledgeable Washing-ton
source said she is " definitely a
leading contender" and by far " the
closest to nomination" of all candidates
for a new judgeship on the U. S. Eighth
Circuit Court of Appeals, based in St.
Louis.
" It will be a couple of months before
those checks are done," Ms. Krauskopf
said. She added that Justice Depart-ment
officials told her they had
requested the investigation. " The --
Justice Department and the president
will make no public announcement until
they are done," she said.
Susan Ness, who is spearheading a .
dive by the national Women's Political
Caucus to push women for federal
judgeships, said this background check
Joan Krauskopf
May become a federal judge
" usually means the individual has been
selected and will be nominated. The
chances are very good at this time,
although it is not at all assured."
The White House press office refused
to confirm the nomination Thursday,
but said it is possible Ms. Krauskopf
will be contacted prior to the official
( See KRAUSKOPF, Page 12A)

SOeiHt 19334
STATE HI9TCRIC. U.
HITT & LOWRY liT.
COLUMBIA, MO- - 520i
71 M Yrar INo. 163 (, Mw Morning lis Friday. Manh 2.1. 197) 2 Sections 18 Pages 15 Cents
BJwftrffJrpB MJ& riBBMiiwaKBBBHHBHHB BBKBt V9 ifiQi inwr t' A3"" " rnHSBHi
fioto lUustrationMarcuS Lamkirvtouic-- Psinoyo
A Missourian Poll shows that voters believe finding future sources of electricity
should be at the top of the city's priority list. The result, voters hope, will be more
effective than the small animal power depicted here.
IVHSSOURIAINfl
Tax- c- ut fever absent gyLLV g
in Columbia, survey reveals
By BJ. Martin
Missourian staff writer
Tax- c- ut fever, which supposedly has swept
the country in the wake of California's Pro-position
13, has not hit Columbia voters.
By a margin of nearly 3- to-- l, Columbians
say they want to keep the present level of
city services, even if itmeans higher taxes.
They oppose, by a margin of 5- t- o- l, cutting
taxes if it means a reduction in services.
A scientific survey conducted by the
Columbia Missourian also shows that:
Voters believe finding future electricity
sources and reducing wasteful spending are
the two most important problems facing the
city.
- City administration and the Parks and
Recreation Department are the most
popular choices for trimming if budget cuts
do become necessary. Law enforcement was
picked overwhelmingly as the last service to
cut.
By almost 2- to- - l, voters oppose the
widening of West Broadway.
- About half the voters favor the city's
proposed purchase of 7 acres ( 2.8 hectares)
of Lions- Stephen- s Park, but almost as many
oppose it.
- Seventy percent support active enforce-ment
of the rental housing standards or-dinance.
Only 15 percent oppose it.
v Nearly half the voters favor adoption of
an earnings tax to replace the existing
property and utilities taxes, but 35 percent
oppose an earnings tax.
The survey, conducted Friday through
Monday, was based on a sample of 360 regis-tered
voters, chosen at random to be repre-sentative
of Columbia voters as a whole. The
margin of error for a sample of this size is 6
percent and the confidence level is 95 per-cent.
This means that, for example, when the
survey shows that 61 percent of the voters
favor maintaining current services, the odds
are 19- to- - l that the true public support is no
less than 55 percent and no greater than 67
percent.
Support for maintaining services even at
the cost of higher taxes which some city
officials have warned is one choice facing
the City Council to be elected April 3 is
strong in all six wards. The First Ward gave
it the lowest support, 48 percent, and the
Fifth Ward gave it the highest, 73 percent.
No ward except the First showed less than
half its voters in support of that alternative.
By contrast, the only ward to show more
than one of five voters in favor of cutting
taxes and services was the Second, with 24
percent. At least 63 percent of the voters
opposed that option in every ward and more
Broadway Widening j
Do sou faor th- - propovd vud.- nitu- ;
i! WVst Bui. idu a- - i
I
Yes No Unsure j
28 589c 149c '
I
1
Stephens Park Purchase I
!
Cit offic iaN hac discussed purchasing
about ccn acres of land known
j as I. ions Stephens Park Arc ou in favor
of the- - purchase- -
j Yes No Unsure
j 50 37 13
than 80 percent were against it in the Fifth
and Sixth wards.
Although voters showed they would be
willing to support existing programs, their
tax- doll- ar generosity ends there. Only 13
percent said they would support increasing
city taxes to receive a higher level of ser- -
( See VOTERS, Page 12A )
Candidates, constituents not in tune
Security breaks down; tax returns given out freely
From United Press International
and Missourian staff reports
JEFFERSON CITY Want a copy of
your neighbor's, or anyone else's,
Missouri income tax return?
With only a minimum of information
and a phone call, you can have the
Missouri Deparujaent of Revenue mail
you a copy of anyone's completed tax
forms. Or at least you could until today.
The Department of Revenue has
claimed that an individual's tax return
is confidential and that the information
is protected. Only the taxpayer filing
the returns can receive a copy, ac-cording
to the department. But in the
past week, copies of three individuals'
state tax returns have been obtained by
reporters with only phone calls to the
department.
In an investigation by United Press
International, the Columbia Missourian
and the Missouri Network, a statewide
radio news service, reporters obtained
copies of personal income tax returns
by giving the department only a name,
address and Social Security number.
One return requested by phone even
was sent to an address other than the
one on the return.
Missouri law states it is a felony for
officials to divulge the contents of a
return. Revenue officials said they
believed they had not violated the law.
In response to the investigation, Gov.
Joseph Teasdale said Thursday he was
appalled by lax security and ordered an
immediate investigation.
At a fund- rais- er in Dexter, Mo..
Teasdale said, " As a former
prosecutor, I am particularly sensitive
to any breach of confidentiality, espe-cially
in an area as sensitive as in-dividual
income tax returns."
State Auditor James Antonio said the
auditor's office has been trying unsuc-cessfully
for years to audit the Revenue
Department's handling of returns.
Antonio said it is ironic that any citi-zen
could get information that Antonio
was barred by the state Supreme Court
from seeing.
" You've got to be kidding me,"
Antonio said when told of the situation.
State Revenue Director Gerald Gold-berg
told reporters Thursday he is
putting a stop to the practice of sending
tax returns after phone requests.
" Whether it's legal or illegal, I'm
putting a stop to it. I think it fthe
request) has to be in writing and we
have to have proof that we're giving it
to the taxpayer," Goldberg said.
Neither Goldberg nor Terry Eckert,
director of the division of taxation, was
able to say Thursday what procedure
department employees follow when
requests are made for copies of returns.
Despite the fact that one of the re-turns
obtained by reporters was mailed
to an address different from the one on
the return. Eckert said copies usually
are not mailed unless the address is the
same.
Both Goldberg and Eckert promised
the matter " will be thoroughly investi-gated."
SALT talks run into snag
By Richard Burt
: New York Times
WASHINGTON Senior administra- tio- n
aides, after an extensive review of
negotiations with the Soviet Union on
limiting strategic arms, have con-cluded
that more talks with Moscow are
needed before a new accord can be
reached, government officials said
Thursday.
" Earlier this week. Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance said a new agreement
might be completed within days. But
after a meetirig Wednesday of the
cabinet- lev- el Special Coordinating
Insight
Committee, officials said two or three
technical issues were holding up the
treaty.
They said the issues reflected a new
administration effort to get Moscow to
agree to more precise limits on
modernization of Soviet missiles and
stricter procedures for verifying com-pliance
with the accord.
They said- - the administration was
committed to completing an agreement
soon and that a summit meeting next
month was still possible. But the White
House was said to be wary of accepting
Soviet proposals that could weaken its
ability to gain Senate approval for the
controversial accord.
Officials said another factor in pro-longing
negotiations was skepticism
among the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who
have taken a tougher line on the talks.
They said the White House was under
pressure to clarify some " ambiguous"
aspects of the treaty.
Some officials voiced concern that
the longer a treaty was delayed, the
more likely it would be that new issues
could further prolong the talks.
Toxins in ponds threaten creek
By Marilyn Cummins
Missourian staff writer
STURGEON Toxic chemicals con-taminating
two ponds here could seep
. into nearby Saling Creek, Ron
CrunkQton of the Missouri Department
of Conservation said Thursday.
, All the fish are dead in the ponds
adjacent to the site where 20,000 gallons
! ( 76,000 liters) of orthochlorophenol
spilled from a tank car in January.
I Although it cannot be determined if the
I fish died of chemical exposure or
1 winter weather, fish placed in water
I from the . upper pond died in eight
I minutes during laboratory tests, said
I Crunkilton, a water quality research
biologist for the conservation depart-ment.
The U. S. Environmental Protection
Agency is awaiting its own test results,
expected today, before recommending
decontamination methods.
Crunkilton said a danger now lies in
the chance that the material might seep
into the creek, which drains about 20
yards ( 18 meters) from the lower pond
and eventually flows into the Salt
River. Samples taken downstream dis-closed
no evidence of the chemical
before Thursday, but additional rainfall --
could affect the drainage.
- Should heavy rainfall cause an over'
flow into the creek, the high water level
would prevent dammiag. the creek to
contain the chemical, said James
Whitley, supervisor of trie water quality
research for the department. Cleaning
the contaminated stream would be
difficult, he said. The conservation de-partment
has no authority over the
ponds.
Bill Kemner, who owns the ponds,
alerted tbe. department about the dead
fish Friday. Department tests showed
no chemicals present in a third pond
located across the road from the spill,
although dead fish were present there
also. Kemner waters his livestock at
the pond.
His wife said that since Jan. 31 two
( See CHEMICALS, Page 12A)
By Wayne J. HeOman
Missourian staff writer
City Council candidates agree with their
constituents on what problems face
Columbia, but they don't always agree what
the solutions are, a Columbia Missourian
survey shows.
Responding to the same survey question-naire,
voters and candidates agree that the
most important problems facing the city are
developing additional sources of electricity,
city tax and spending policies, and im-proving
traffic control.
However, several candidates' positions on
what level of city taxes and services should
be maintained have little in common with
their constituents' opinions. Some council
candidates said city taxes are too high, but
voters in every ward strongly oppose tax
cuts if they mean a loss of services. A large
majority of the voters would even support a
tax increase to maintain current city ser-vices.
All the candidates in the Third, Fourth and
Sixth wards said they oppose increasing
taxes to maintain current services, though
support for maintaining services is the
highest in those wards. Sixth Ward can-didate
Ruth Eason said she thinks the level
of services can be maintained while taxes
are reduced.
In contrast. Second Ward opponents
Holme Hickman and James Williams and
First Ward candidate Richard Knipp said
they support maintaining services even at
the cost of increasing taxes, while fewer of
their constituents take that position than in
the other wards. Hickman added that he
doesn't believe a tax increase will be
necessary to maintain current services.
Knipp's opponent, Mary Ratliff . has called
for a lid on city spending, while Sixth Ward
candidate Lew Stoerker has accused the
present council of wasting city funds on con- - 1
suiting studies and equipment for the Parks I
and Recreation Department. I
Voters, asked which city department l
should be cut if budget trimming is done, i
named the parks department second only to I
city administration. I
Another sharp difference between candi- - J
dates and voters shows up on the issue of j
widening West Broadway. Voters citywide
oppose the widening by 2- to- - l. but five of the
13 candidates said they support the project.
Only the First Ward race seems likely to
feel any impact from that difference,
however. Knipp favors the project and Mrs.
Ratliff opposes it. But First Ward voters are
so marginally opposed to the project that the
( See MANY, Page 12 A)
Inside
today
Endorsement
The Missourian continues its
editorial endorsements for the
April 3 City Council elections with
a selection- - for the First Ward
race. See Page 4A.
Health insurance
President Carter, deciding
against proposing full compre-hensive
national health insurance
this year, plans to submit to
Congress soon the first phase of a
health program that would begin
in 1983 and cost $ 10 billion to $ 15
billion. Details on Page 2A.
Mat town
today
9: 49 a. m. Author Louis " Studs"
Terkel speaks, University's
Memorial Union Auditorium.
7 p. m. " TV Dinner," Univer-sity
Studio Theater, 50 cents.
7: 30 p. m. Country Hayride
Opry show, Stephens College Old
Auditorium, $ 3.50 for adults' and
$ 2.50 for students.
8 p. m. " The Crucible,"
Maplewood Barn Theater.
Movie listings on Page 2B
Krauskopf top choice
for federal judgeship
By Paul Wilson and Richard Antwefler
Missourian staff writers
Joan Miday Krauskopf, a professor at
the University School of Law and a
leading contender for a new federal
judgeship, said Thursday night an in-vestigation
of her background by the
FBI and the American Bar Association
has begun.
That inquiry usually is tantamount to
a candidate's nomination, according to
a high official in the Women's Political
Caucus.
Ms. Krauskopf made the statement to
a Columbia Missourian reporter when
he told her a knowledgeable Washing-ton
source said she is " definitely a
leading contender" and by far " the
closest to nomination" of all candidates
for a new judgeship on the U. S. Eighth
Circuit Court of Appeals, based in St.
Louis.
" It will be a couple of months before
those checks are done," Ms. Krauskopf
said. She added that Justice Depart-ment
officials told her they had
requested the investigation. " The --
Justice Department and the president
will make no public announcement until
they are done," she said.
Susan Ness, who is spearheading a .
dive by the national Women's Political
Caucus to push women for federal
judgeships, said this background check
Joan Krauskopf
May become a federal judge
" usually means the individual has been
selected and will be nominated. The
chances are very good at this time,
although it is not at all assured."
The White House press office refused
to confirm the nomination Thursday,
but said it is possible Ms. Krauskopf
will be contacted prior to the official
( See KRAUSKOPF, Page 12A)